When Disaster Strikes

By | 8 Jul 2013

19 firefighters of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite wilderness firefighting team fielded by the Prescott, Arizona Fire Department, died while fighting a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona on June 30, 2013. They were caught out in the open when a sudden wind-shear reversed the course of the fire back towards them, overwhelming the team long before they could… Read More »

The Maker of the Universe

By | 16 May 2013

Below is a poem by F. W. Pitt, an author and poet who lived during the middle part of the last century. His beautiful and eloquent words are a succinct presentation of the Gospel and evoke powerful images of Christ’s appearance on this earth as God-in-sandals and substitutionary death for our sins. A few years back, Phil Keaggy… Read More »

By His Stripes We Are Healed #5:
Faith For Healing

By | 9 Feb 2013

Many are the times when I’ve heard objections raised against the doctrine of divine healing that go something along the lines of the following: Brother/Sister So-and-so believed God for healing and it didn’t work. He/she stayed sick for months/died/whatever. -OR- My aunt got prayed for by (insert any famous healing evangelist’s name here) and she still died of… Read More »

By His Stripes We Are Healed #4:
The Name of God

By | 19 Dec 2012

Taking The Lord’s Name in Vain One of the many misconceptions held by Christians throughout modern history is their interpretation of the third of the Ten Commandments, which reads: , for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. Exodus 20:7 Historically in Anglo-American culture, this has been interpreted to mean using the… Read More »

By His Stripes We Are Healed #3:
Saved From Sickness

By | 19 Dec 2012

Many Christ-followers miss a key principle when exploring the New Testament concerning divine healing. Fascinatingly, it’s the Greek word for “saved” itself. …if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be . For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with… Read More »

By His Stripes We Are Healed #2:
Healing in the Atonement — Part 2

By | 18 Dec 2012

Redeemed From the Curse In Galatians, as Paul is refuting the heresy of Judaizing, he makes a remarkable statement: (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)… Galatians 3:13 Some people have interpreted this to mean the Law itself was a curse, but that is neither accurate nor scriptural. The Law of Moses was intended… Read More »